Food Stamp Cards Inoperable East Coast?

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MidnightTide
reply to post by Cuervo

 

Personal responsibility obviously has little or no meaning to you.

(and I sleep well enough, thanks for worrying - you must be a fan of Obamacare)

Explain to me what personal responsibility a child is supposed to exhibit? Are you saying the children are somehow vicariously undeserving of basic necessities because of their incompetent parents?

And what the hell does Obamacare have to do with this? I don't have any of the straws you are grasping for, sorry.

Daughter2
You've done this on a project this big? No way.....I'm sure there's a huge IT department involved.
This is a huge project that should have strict controls.

What type of computer glitch would take over a day to fix?

I work in one of the top hospitals in the world with an IT staff of over 400 people and their have been outages that have lasted more then 24 hours. Their have been outages that lasted over 24 hours that were not related to Sandy. It's really not hard to imagine their being a problem that could take this long. Even easier to imagine it taking place over a weekend.

Please show me what IT world you live in where perfect storm scenarios don't happen.

Networks, PBXs, systems, software, websites are complex. Things break all the time. I don't get why that is hard for people to understand.

I read through as many posts as I could without crushing my phone at the responses. I didn't see one mention it, so I'll pose the question, do any of y'all feel like this is maybe a test. Maybe they are attempting to determine where the biggest problems will arise first, or how long it will take for serious unrest to begin?

reply to post by Zarkia


I get about 250.00. I buy staples with that but lucky for me I know how to cook from scratch and we don't eat much in the way of prepared foods. I even bake my own bread. The last week of the month I use cash because by then the card is empty. We are a family of three. But like I said no problem with the card today. I live in Virginia.

MidnightTide

Oh, the poor children - yes, the poor kids, their parents are idiots.

15 kids and a mom - SOMEONE GOTTA PAY.

Here we go again, another a$$ hat!! YES, the mom is a skank who SHOULD have used birth control, she absolutely should have!!!! BUT there are children left in the wake of her decisively "poor judgement (she's a ho, period)", so what is to be done for the innocent? I personally guarantee you not one of her 1st 14 were standing in the room cheering mommy on while she created #15!!

I get just as pi$$ed as the next guy standing in line while my tax dollars buy lobster tail and gourmet chocolate for the person in front of me while I settle for ground chuck and elbow noodles. But seriously, those kids didn't pick their mommy, so back off!

Text What if it's not a dry run? what if THIS IS IT?! What now? Too many coincidences in the past week and a half if you ask me. The time for real action is NOW!

reply to post by IrishCream


If not well time will tell.

Thread is railing along fine it seems, what are you talking about?

There are varied reports of some stores in the affected states are taking EBT cards again.

yamammasamonkey
I read through as many posts as I could without crushing my phone at the responses. I didn't see one mention it, so I'll pose the question, do any of y'all feel like this is maybe a test. Maybe they are attempting to determine where the biggest problems will arise first, or how long it will take for serious unrest to begin?

Absolutely!!!

In my line of work we call it a "dry run". Prior to actually implementing a change, we simulate the change to see what the potential responses are thereby allowing time to tweak things until we are certain that the outcome of the official test will proceed as expected.

It's not rocket science but is still a science.

There are no glitches. There are no "whoops". This is a dry run and the data is being collected to determine how to implement the official plan in a way with that produces the desired outcome.

The word authority actually means permission, as in “consent of the governed”.
This literally means that we allow government on us simply by never informing it that it can’t. And through our implied tacit consent (silence is consent), we are literally being turned into voluntary slaves.

So I think its about time to withdraw that consent. It’s time to for some action, civil disobedience, and dissent…

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reply to post by Cuervo


Yes, it is called to bad, so sad. You and the rest of the moral squad can donate all the money you want but leave me out of it.


reply to post by IrishCream


and you wonder why the system is breaking apart - because the idiots get to breed with zero consequences.

Now i am completely lost.
Luckily reports of EBT being on the mend are spreading...so no riots or cannibalism.
Yet....dum dum dum.

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I would love a link to reports, please! Family is waiting to hear......

reply to post by bozzchem


In fact most dictionaries specifically define terrorism as:
“Systematic use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective… employed by governments against their own people to suppress dissent

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IrishCream
Let me start this with *face palm*!! I have worked AND paid taxes since I was 16, there were several times in

Like i said in my reply, "For the families\people that need it to survive then I hope they use the system to their fullest. To the criminals that scam it then I hope they get nothing."

Just because their are honest people that need and use welfare doesn't mean it is ok for criminals to exploit it.

Okay *bow* I agree 100%.

The Bird

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reply to post by jennybee35

I think this event may have been intentionally carried out as a beta test. However for it to be an accurate test it would be better to do it when most people get their monthly ration. I think if it continued for 3 days or so we would with out a doubt see unrest. Being a Mississippi gulf coast Katrina ground zero first responder I saw the unrest first hand and it got bad on day 3.

Daughter2

juniperberry
As a programmer and a human being, I have occasionally fallen into the trap of spending an entire week (or month) feverishly working on a fix/change/upgrade and had it finished by Friday afternoon at 3pm.

And since everyone has gone home early because of the long weekend, it's the PERFECT time to implement this fix/change/upgrade.

Then I could go home happy with the feeling of accomplishment, put my feet up on the otto and sip my wine with not a care in the world. Because what could go wrong? I wrote it. I know my code. It is PERFECT.

Seriously people, it doesn't have to be a conspiracy...

You've done this on a project this big? No way.....I'm sure there's a huge IT department involved.
This is a huge project that should have strict controls.

What type of computer glitch would take over a day to fix?

Okay you're right. My projects are not THIS big. But big enough to warrant me getting my sorry butt back into the office first thing Saturday morning..

And yes, glitches CAN take a day to fix. Even a couple of days. Sometimes the problem isn't actually the hundreds of lines of code you were manipulating that is the problem, but the cascading effect somewhere else. Sometimes it requires an entire algorithm rewrite..

yamammasamonkey
I read through as many posts as I could without crushing my phone at the responses. I didn't see one mention it, so I'll pose the question, do any of y'all feel like this is maybe a test. Maybe they are attempting to determine where the biggest problems will arise first, or how long it will take for serious unrest to begin?

I gave you a star because I believe you are onto something!

Now let's ask the question: does it matter if it's a "test" or not? As a Nation, are we going to let children starve? Are we going to allow Canada, UK, India, Russia, etc. start airing commercials to "Help the poor children of the United States get much needed food, clean water, clothing and medical care? Are we going to allow those children to go to sleep tonight with hunger pains?"!!!!! OR are we going to take care of business here at home before it reaches this crisis point?!